Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann is an exhibition-maker and writer based in San Francisco, where he is the director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. In 2011 he was the curator, with Adriano Pedrosa, of the 12th Istanbul Biennial, and is currently curating the 9th Shanghai Biennial. In 2010 he founded The Exhibitionist: A Journal on Exhibition Making, the first journal dedicated exclusively to questions of curatorial practice. Hoffmann is assistant professor at the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and a guest professor at the Nova Academia de Bella Art in Milan.

Selected publications
2012 The studio, Jens Hoffmann (ed.), MIT Press and Whitechapel Gallery, Cambridge and London. Show time. A history of exhibitions from 1990 to the present, Jens Hoffmann, Thames & Hudson, London.

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